Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A Little Kid

Okay, I’m going to talk about what
could be the most important lesson I’ve learned in my life so far. The lesson
is that you are always a little kid. Always. In other words, there is always a
bigger kid or someone who is older than you. Let me get into details.

Pretty much all kids try to be older
than they are, or want to be older, or have more age privileges. As a young
child, most appreciate it when called a “Big Boy” or a “Big Girl”. I certainly
did. Kids (by the way my definition of a kid is a teenager and younger, though
this opinion applies to some adults too) are always trying to take after older
kids, which is fine by me. Older kids don’t really respect younger kids as
much. This is the reason why when The
Lightning Thief (amazing book, decent-poor movie) was made into a movie,
the main characters were roughly seventeen years old, where in the book they
were twelve. The makers wanted to be able to attract an older audience, which
without older (and/or more mature) characters, they couldn’t have done.

Everywhere throughout my life, I’ve witnessed
kids trying to assert age dominance over me or other kids when they could, or
just trying to be what they think is mature, which I think is immature. When I
was in Kindergarten, and I went to the bathroom, if another boy came in who was
in first or second grade, they would always ask the same question, “What grade
are you in?” Usually they would know the answer but the older kids would just
ask because they wanted to show age dominance. It’s only when you get into
first grade when you realize now there is now an older second grader to show
dominance. There’s always an older kid.

I guess what I mean to say is, don’t
try act as someone older, when you’re younger, or otherwise when you get to be
that age, you’re probably going to look back on yourself and have a face palm
moment.